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Pencil Box – Christmas 2025

29th December 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Season’s greetings with a little cheerful podcast. Only 8 minutes long so more of a comedy sketch. It’s a book review/panel type show with myself (as Alvin Whakahihi), Peabody, Edna (as Lady Pendlesham), Mr Wiggy [more…]

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Playing With Electricity – Part 4

9th July 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Damn You Morus Nigra! ‘John Swerved as Mary, Queen of Scots, was busy with her throne but it wouldn’t flush so her face turned to stone when Jane put her hand on John’s gear stick [more…]

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Playing With Electricity – Part 3

25th June 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

“Your nose will grow…” I’m sure that we can all recall some of these admonitions from our youth: “Keep looking like that and your face will stick!” – Why? To what? Surely that isn’t in [more…]

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Playing With Electricity – Part 2

11th June 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

T.I.B Or Not To T.I.B? PersonX: “Doc, can you just have a look at the vacuum cleaner it’s making a funny noise?” Doc: “Err…well..err…you see I’ve got…err…an appointment with the dentist…” PersonX: “There’s no mention [more…]

Hobbies

Playing With Electricity – Part 1

28th May 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Sponsored Introduction – SPAD Report Sir Montague Snoddgrass KC the special advisor to the Prime Minister’s Secretary’s budgie, Fred, has replaced his cleaner with a newer model. The old one, Elsie Dustall sucked-up one of [more…]

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The Ghost Of Peabody Manor

30th December 2024 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction This podcast was meant for Halloween, so much for that after the Doc managed to do his back and legs in and ended up in bed for nearly a month. I hope that you’re [more…]

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The Helium-Neon Laser

9th December 2024 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction In my laser articles Iv’e often mentioned the helium-neon (He-Ne) laser which I have used to align the feedback mirrors and make holograms. I thought that it would be remiss of me not to [more…]

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Escaping The 8118

2nd September 2024 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction Every Autumn/winter my primary school would drag (probably more true than I care to think about these days) me to the local swimming pool. Understandable as it was indoors and heated. I hated it. [more…]

Fiction

The Dragon Of Peabody Manor

20th May 2024 Doc Mike Finnley 0

It was a dark and stormy night, suddenly there was a knock at the door. Well that’s how childish stories usually start. For our little podcast I’ll try and go more silly. Welcome to Peabody [more…]

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